Congratulations Alice, glad to hear things worked out for you. I have been
on this list for about a year now and while I've done two PIC projects I
have done very little of Êthe software myself, Êso will look for help from
the rest of you when I begin the next project not having a software
assembly person to rely on. Makes me nervous to think about it.

My first pic project hits the street (well, a dump) tomorrow or the
next day. ÊI owe it all to you guys.

For the record, it took about 1 year from concept to the
Al-o-Tron Mark 1 landfill datalogger. ÊArmed only with enthusiasm and
a ham radio license, i learned to program the 16c84 in assembly,
including watchdog timeouts, using reset as interrupt, and
designed the circuit, including 8-bit adc 0831, memory 93c56, figured
out how to make the 33khz crystals work, wrote a 300-baud serial
interface, hooked in a 15 psi sensym pressure sensor, learned to
create a temperature compensation circuit for it, built my first
instrumentation amplifier, built an infrared link that doesnt work
too well yet, produced my first circuit board, and put in a s81350hc
ldo regulator. Êi plan to upgrade the adc to 12 bits when i locate an
8-pin one. ÊIt runs off 9volts because thats all i know how to do
yet, but when i figure out switchers i will change it to 2AAs.

This has been an incredible experience. ÊI couldnt have done it
without you. ÊSpecial thanks to